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The acts of the blood guide.

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You know, Welcome to another episode of the Black God, US Gamer's official RPG podcast.

I'm your host, Kat Bailey, and joining me today is an old friend.

Indeed.

Returning from our days at GamePro with Role Players Realm.

It's been a long time. Please welcome back. Richard in Japan.

Hi, everybody. I'm Richard from Kotaku.com, and me and Kat go way back, so we're ready to talk about RPGs.

Richard from Kotaku. How are you doing these days?

I'm doing quite well. Writing a lot, a lot about all the popular Japanese games. It's what I do.

So I brought you on the show because it seems that you've played 70 hours of Xenoblade Chronicles X.

And when I had Elliot Gay on the show a few weeks ago to talk about kind of what was going on in Japan,

it was like a few days before Zeno Blade Chronicles X had come out.

And I had checked it out, but I think I was under embargo to be able to talk about it.

Anyway, so we're going to get some more complete thoughts.

And, you know, this is a good opportunity to also talk about Zeno Blade Chronicles, the original,

which you played like way back when, back when it was just in Japanese.

Yep. So we can also talk about that. So anyway, Zena Blade Chronicles X, spent out for quite a while. You've played a whole bunch. Tell me what are your initial thoughts.

My initial thoughts are actually not that positive.

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